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Friday, September 19, 2008
The tyranny of diagnosis: Are doctors treating patients?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In her story about the difficulty of diagnosis, Dr. Pauline Chen writes about the challenges faced by patients with “non-diagnoses.”
“The concept of disease, Professor Rosenberg writes, has historically focused on the individual — a single person’s experience, story and sense of meaning. Over the last century and a half, however, medicine has increasingly decoupled disease from the individual. This decoupling has given rise to the concept of precise, objective and quantifiable diagnoses, diagnoses so separate from patients that they seem in many ways to take on a life of their own.”
Have you had problems with getting your illness diagnosed? Was it difficult? How did the doctors treat you? What was your experience?
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